Representation Analysis-

Robin Thicke - 'Blurred Lines'

In this essay i will be analysing the music video for Robin Thicke's 'Blurred Lines', and i will be addressing the different stereotypes, techniques and representation shown also throughout the video. I will be going through the video an picking out certain scenes, camera techniques, post-production techniques and audio codes/visual codes. Firstly, i will talk about the representation shown throughout the video, such as Age and Gender. I will also begin to talk about the main ideas of how both genders are shown throughout the video than il proceed to talk about the more technical aspects of the video.

I'll begin by talking about how men are represented in the video, as in the video all three men are shown to be quite focused on sex, this is the main theme of the entire seen as even the hooks reads ''i know you want it'',  this is extremely sexual during the song as they stare and lust over the under dressed women. This is called the 'Male Gaze' In feminist philosophy, the male gaze is the act of depicting the world and woman in the visual arts and in literature from a masculine and heterosexual point of view, which present women as objects of male pleasure. All the sexualisation in the video with the under dressed women are because they aim to the male audience in the music video, so they made a presumption that it would mainly catch a male audience. Also the male representation is also shown through all three men wearing suits and wearing gold watches which are usually a stereotype of men, to be wearing a suit having a briefcase, always working and having a busy work life, unless that the point they wanted to show to say that there successful, or even boast about there wealth. You could also say that the glasses they wear could be shown to be something that masks there true feelings, almost hiding that insecurities.

However, women are represented much differently throughout the video, firstly, there mainly just shown to be a sex object throughout the whole video, as they have almost no dialogue and instead just dances and almost teases the men whilst being very under dressed showing that they have no agency. The only dialogue by one of the three women was one ''meow'', this has many different connotations, such as women being compared to pets, or showing there animalistic desire for sex. Furthermore, due to there limited agency throughout the video rather than the high and mighty representation of the men suggests that there almost being used by men and even disposable as there shown to have no distinctive features in the actions, again adding to the ideal of them being only objects that you can replace.